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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-919/
- Published: 2024-03-01T17:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-01T02:22:55.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> Destiny Church bikers will continue to wear their Tu Tangata leather vests because “they are korowai, not gang patches”, says church matriarch Hannah Tamaki.  
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> [New legislation on Monday](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/gang-crackdown-government-to-introduce-legislation-to-ban-gang-insignia-in-public-places-and-gathering-in-groups/YBGMXBKGNBDHJOTCCKPKGCCOHA/?ref=goodoil.news) outlawed the wearing of gang patches in public, and offenders who break that ban could be fined up to $5000 or jailed for six months. The gang patch ban extends to funerals and tangi.  
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> Tamaki told the *Herald* the 90 bikers who ride under Destiny Church’s Tu Tangata Iwi Tapu patch would continue in the church colours.  
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> Half of the 90 [Destiny bikers ](https://www.facebook.com/nzherald.co.nz/posts/10156637016436302/?paipv=0&eav=AfbwvsEdOk3%5FtceLcpKtudzC38-bkIdg-PweWzzRiEYCdrt5g1P7sO0Kb0VWdo3-Rxo&%5Frdr)were former gang members who traded their Black Power and Mongrel Mob patches for the religious insignia.  
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> “We don’t consider Tu Tangata Iwi Tapu a patch or a gang. It’s a korowai,” Tamaki said.  
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> NZ Herald

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